Machine for weaving cross-wires in fences.



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UNITED STATES A AfriiNT `VOFFICE.

NATHAN. STEELE AND HAYEsnRowN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MACHINE FoR-wi-:AvlNo CROSS-.WIRES IN FENcEs.

SEECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent N. 69 9,9815, dated May 13,1902.

Apparition filed April 27, 1901.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, NATHAN STEELE andl HAYES BROWN,citizens of theUnited States,

residing at Columbus, in the county of Frank- Weaving Cross-Wires inFences, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the improvement of machines for weavingcross-wires in wire fences; and the objects of'our invention-are toprovide an improved machine of'this class of superior construction andarrangement of parts whereby the weaving of cross-wires in a wire fencemay be rapidly and effectively accomplished, and to produce certain improvements in details of construction and arrangement of parts whichwill be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects we accomplishin the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurelis a side elevation of ourimproved machine. Fig. 2 isa front elevationof the same. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section enlarged from thepreviously-described figures. Fig. 4 is a detail viewshowing Vatransverse section through two of the Weaving-,spools and illustratingthe .positions of the same when the wire-carrying reelis beingtransferred from onerweaving-spoolto lthe Otherf: Fig. 5 is a sectionalviewfthrough one endof the wire-carryingreel-frame,and Fig. 6 isanenlargedsection on line y fy'ofFig. 1.

Similar. numerals refer to similar. parts throughout theseveral views.

In carrying out our'invention'we provide vertical and parallelframe sideplates l and 2, which are'suitably connected at theirupper and lower endportions to produce vthe main weaver-carrying frame. Each of these frameside plates or standards vis providedwith a vertical row of circularopenings 3, the latter gradually decreasing in size from top to bottomof the row and said openings being made to communicate l in their upperand lower sides, as shown. In the oppositely-located openings 3 of theStandards l and 2 are made to bear rotatably the disk-like heads 4 and5' of weaver-carrying spools 6, the transverse shaft portions of each ofthe latter being. provided with a longitudinally-slotted opening 7. Eachof the heads 4 and 5 is formed on senti Nt. 57,632,y da model.;

itsinner, sde witha disk-like enlargement,

resulting in the formation of internal circular shoulders, theseshoulders being indicated at 4a and 5m.: Each of the tubular shafts 6has thatjend portion on which the head 4 is mountedextended through saidhead and caused-tobear in a bearing-opening formedinavvertically-arranged bar 8, which is secured on the outer side of theframe-standard 1. On the outer side of this bar the enlarged head Vofl,the-shaft 'carries a sprocket-wheel 9, said Sprocket-wheel beingformed with an opening 10, arranged out of center therewithandlargenthan the central opening'of the spool- Shafts. andcommunicating with the slotted opening 7 of the shaft 6. A similaroffset or opening 10a is formed in each of the spool-heads or disks i4and 5, these Vlarger openings v10a communicating with the boreof thevcorresponding Spool-shaft, as indicated in Fig.'3. Each of the disks orheads 4 and 5 is formedwitha peripheral notch 11, which eX- tends inwardto the periphery of the shoulders 4a 5a.:

12 represents an oblong reel-frame within which is journaledtransversely a wire-carrying spool or reel body 13. The ends of thisreel-frame 12 are provided with outwardlyextendingtr'unnions 14 and 15,the trunnion 15 being, as indicated more clearly in Fig. 5 of thedrawings, in the nature of a tube. The trunnions 15 and 14 are adapted,as indicated -in the drawings, to be su pported,respectively,

in two oppositely-located spool-head notches 11, while thewire 13a fromthe spool 13 is adapted, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, to passthrough the tubular trunnion 15.

On the inner sides of the standards 1 and 2 andon opposite sides of .thepoints of connection vof the' openings 3 are pivoted inwardly-extendinggravity Apawls orngers 16 and 17. Each of the pawls 16 hasits innerpointed or wedge-like end portion normally bearing by gravity upon theshoulder 4f* of the next lower spool-head 4 or 5, while the pawls orfingers 17 have their outer end portions weighted to insure the contactof the inner pointed portion thereof with the under side of the shoulder4 or 5*PL of the next higher spool-head 4 or 5, this construction beingdrawings.

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Secured to the outer sides of the plates or standards 1 and 2 areparallel forwardly-projecting arms 18 and 19, andjournaled between theouter ends of these arms is a shaft 20, on one end of which is carried asprocket-wheel 21. The inner portion of the arm 18, in front of thestandard 1, has pivoted thereon an idle sprocket-wheel 22. The shaft 20,as indicated at 23, carries an operating-crank. Through the medium ofdotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings and in fulllines in Fig. 2 I haveindicated a continuous driving-chain 24, this chain running, as shown inFig. 1, alternately over the rear and front sides of the sprocketwheels9 and running from the upper sprocketwheel 9 downward beneath thesprocketwheel 22 and over the sprocket wheel 21, thence to the lowersprocket-wheel 9.

25 represents the parallel horizontal wires of a wire fence. Thesewires, as indicated in the drawings, are in utilizing my invention madeto pass, respectively, through the tubular shafts of the spools 6, themain frame of our device being thus supported in a vertical position. Inorder to illustrate the operation of weaving cross-wires in connnectionwith the horizontal wires 25, we will assume that the trunnions 14 and15 of the wire-reel-carrying frame 12 are located, respectively, in theperipheral notches 11 of the upper oppositelylocated reel-heads 4 and 5,and that that portion of the wire 13 which extends outward through thetrunnion 15 has been previously engaged with the top or upper horizontalwire 25. By turning the crank-handle 23, and thus through the chain 24imparting rotary motion to the spools 6, which motion, we will assume,is such as to cause the upper spool to rotate in the direction indicatedby the dotted arrow in Fig. 3, it is obvious that the wire-reel frame 12may be made to travel about the shaft of the upper spool o' the desiredInumber of times, thereby causing the wire 13zx to be wound or coiledupon the upper wire 25 the desired number of times. In this operation itis obvious that at each rotation of the spoolheads 4 5 the inner ends ofthe pawls 17 will be depressed during the passage of the trunnions 14and 15 over the same. In order to 17 in the manner indicated in Fig. 4.In this manner the reel-frame is carried into connection with thenotches 11 of the next lower spool-heads, and through its travelingaction about said next lower spool results in the wire 13n being woundupon the next lower wire 25. It is obvious that the operation oftransferring the wire-carrying reel from one spool to another may becontinued throughout the spools of the vertical row to the bottom of theframe, after which the frame may be made to slide in the direction ofthe length of the wires 25 and the operation of successively connectingthe cross-wire 13a with the horizontal wires carried on by such rotarymovement of the spools as will result in carrying the reel upward.

In cases where the horizontal fence-wires have been spliced orenlargements formed therein by kinking or otherwise it is obvious thatany difficulty which might be experienced through the failure of thewire where these enlargements occur to pass through the tubular shaftsof the spools 6 may be remedied by forcing the wire temporarilyout intothe larger sprocket-wheel openings 10 or until the obstruction ispassed.

From the construction and operation described it will be seen that amachine is provided for weaving cross-wires in fences by which theoperation may be carried on rapidly and effectively.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a machine for weaving cross-wires in fences, the combination with aframework comprising vertical frame standards and spools G havingenlarged heads journaled in said frame-standards, said heads havingperipherial notches 11, the shaftsof said spools being tubular and agear connection between the outer ends of said shafts, of a reel-frame12 having journaled therein a wire-carrying spool, said frame 12 havingtrunnions 14 and 15, the latter being tubular, said trunnions adapted toengage oppositely-located notches of the spoo1-heads4 and 5, and meansfor directing said trunnions from the notches of one pair of heads intothe notches of an adjacent pair, substantially as specified.

v NATHAN STEELE.

HAYES BROWN. In presence of- C. C. SHEPHERD, P. S. KARSHNER.

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